Just finished watching it, very impressed

Rating: Null/10 (13 April 2004)

*Includes spoilers*
Went into watching this film hopeful, but not expectant. I was, however, very pleasantly surprised. The suspense doesn't let up until the end, it has some genuinely scary parts, and the adrenaline really was pumping when Jim goes mental toward the end. Added to that Danny Boyle's excellent cinematography and John Murphy's excellent score (with a nice nod to Brian Eno - always slightly chilling in every sense of the word), I found this film extremely enjoyable. Granted, as some have said, it borrows very heavily from other movies of the genre, but there's been no attempt to cover this up... in fact, I expect many shots are meant to be in homage.
Just a couple of things I'd like to clear up...
In reply to those that seem to believe that the entire world is meant to be infected, you must have been out of the room during the reference to how Britain had been quarantined. That's why right at the end we see the infected starving, and an American jet flys over and finds the survivors. The infection stops there.
Another comment made here is that the soldier's desperation to procreate makes no sense because of this. Again, I think you've missed the point... they weren't so much desperate to procreate, as to simply get their ends away... just like any other rapist, really. It raises some very poignant issues about humanity in general: the enemy is often within... while the infected have no choice but to attack, the uninfected soldiers had a choice. It's a scary prospect.
Anyway, have a watch if you fancy a stylish and often scary thriller/horror with that inimitably British Boyle edge.